The conclusion endorsed in this argument is that people using sweetener aspartame rather than sugar will actually gain instead of lose weight.Several reasons are offered in order to substantiate this conclusion. First of all, to support the argument, the author indicates that the aspartame,triggering a carving for food,can actually cause an increase in body weight. Moreover, it's argued that, 45 minutes' consumption of sugars will enable the body to burn fat more effectively. At first glance, this argument seems to be somewhat reasonable. However, through careful examination and further reflection, it turns out that the argument neglects two concerns which is addressed to substantiate the argument. Therefore,I find this argument is logically persuasive, for it committed the following fallacies. First and foremost,the author unfairly assumes that weight gain was determined solely by one's dietary habit. While dietary habit is a seemingly important element in determining weight gain, it is hardly the only or even necessarily required element. This assumption overlooks other crucial criteria in determining weight gain—such as gene. Without accounting for these potential factors, the author concludes too hastily that dietary habit is the unique elment determining weight gain. In the second place, a threshold problem that sugar's reinforcing body's ability to burn fat is actually based on the 45 minutes' exercise. However, as it stands in the argument, the aspartame is applied to general situations.Under such circumstances, the author provides no evidence to claim that the general group as a whole is of the same characteristic. The example cited, while suggestive of this trend, is insufficient to warrant that the sample is representative of the whole group. Therefore, such evidence would be obviously unrepresentative. In fact, in face of such limited evidence, it is fallacious for the author to draw any conclusion at all. Consequently, the argument lacks credibility and fails to provide compelling evidence in support of the argument thus it's not persuasive as it stands. Accordingly, it's imprudent for the author to state that people who use sweetener aspartame rather than sugar will actually gain instead of lose weight. To solidify the argument, the author would have to provide more convincing evidence as well as to present that dietary habit play as an exclusive role in determining body weight. Furthermore, to assess the argument, the author has to futher specify that the function of sugar to strenthen the body's ability to burn fat more effectively is not based on valid assumptions.Accordingly, only with more persuasive evidence can this argument become more convincing than just an emotional appeal. |